If you can read this link and sign up to help.
https://www.scarboroughathletic.com/news/no-battle-no-victory-fund-2025-05-16-150127

Your 100% fan-owned club needs your help!

So if you are reading this, you’ve probably seen me at a game with my cameras, normally having the time of my life (Some Tuesday nights against Curzon and Oxford City…less so though!)

It has been well documented that Scarborough has some serious issues with the pitch and what is under the pitch. If you don’t know then please read this link

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckgdj9lg8zpo

So for 2025/26, we are off to Bridlington Town to play our home games (What utter legends they have been in our hour of need). This will obviously mean more time spent at games and distances covered for all of us.

As part of the media team, for a Saturday 3pm home game, I normally get to a game for 12pm…grab some stadium shots and wait for the lads to arrive. Next it’s the mascots and time to grab a few shots of them with the team and their favourite player (I’d pick Benno if it were me!).

So from around 2pm onwards its warm-ups and fan cam time. 3pm is obviously kick-off. We normally get away from the 5pm ish and then it’s back home to storm through a few thousand pictures and get them best of them sent to Ree, normally around 8-9pm depending on how the game went…..So that’s a 8/9 hour day done for free because the experience is bloody amazing!

Tuesday nights at the Sports village and these pics will be landing in Ree’s inbox around midnight and even later sometimes….god help us this season, there will be difficult Wednesday mornings to navigate.

So what’s my point to all of this?. The club is a massive part of the community and does help so many people in so many different ways.
For me, it helped me to recover from my heart failure and find some strength, energy and purpose. Great to be part of a supportive team again. It has given me more confidence to develop my skills and now I’m doing all sorts of crazy stuff with my cameras.
So Boro will always have my loyalty and I will happily support them where I can….perhaps I shouldn’t have but I cancelled my Everyone Active membership so I could donate to the No Battle, No Victory fund raising efforts as our club (100% fan-owned) is taking a big hit being away from home and it needs our help.

So please take some time to consider helping; here is the link below
https://www.scarboroughathletic.com/news/no-battle-no-victory-fund-2025-05-16-150127

If you can’t afford the £20 per month get in touch with the club at info@scaboroughathletic.com and I am sure they will be happy to talk.

If you have seen a councillor, mayor, MP talk about our club and how important it is….tell them to get their hands in their pockets and sign-up as well!

Nag your friends, family and any you know who could help.

If you have mates you have said that they’ve thought about coming to a game….then be a mate and buy them a ticket and drag them down to Brid for some fun.

Anyways….thanks for reading my rambles. My goals for the 25/26 season are the following:
- Buy a 300mm f2.8 lens (SO EXPENSIVE….please help and book me for weddings)
- Get more celebration pics than Zach
- Do loads of Fan Cam stuff
- See Benno do a backflip for a cele?

No Battle, No Victory

Harmony for Fern and James